Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Brazil and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Robert Hood to the jazz kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Von Mondo. All the underground hits.
All Average White Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Audionom record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Glambeats Corp. record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gil Scott Heron,
Bad Manners,
The Standells,
Alphaville,
The Names,
The Monochrome Set,
Faraquet,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Amon Düül II,
Procol Harum,
Erasure,
Johnny Clarke,
Gastr Del Sol,
Harmonia,
Marcia Griffiths,
Intrusion,
Sonny Sharrock,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Trojans,
The Vogues,
ABBA,
Cymande,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Albert Ayler,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Michelle Simonal,
Ultra Naté,
Lindisfarne,
Dorothy Ashby,
OOIOO,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Black Moon,
Sound Behaviour,
Barry Ungar,
Sam Rivers,
Tubeway Army,
Rhythm & Sound,
Joensuu 1685,
Frankie Knuckles,
Negative Approach,
48th St. Collective,
U.S. Maple,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Modern Lovers,
Man Eating Sloth,
Lalo Schifrin,
Flamin' Groovies,
Sonic Youth,
Fatback Band,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Tom Boy,
Suburban Knight,
Bill Wells,
Isaac Hayes,
Scratch Acid,
Toni Rubio,
Goldenarms,
the Swans,
The Beau Brummels,
The Litter,
Derrick Morgan,
Gang Gang Dance,
Spoonie Gee, Spoonie Gee, Spoonie Gee, Spoonie Gee.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.